Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-17

supposed that conditions for large crops
were much more favorable than here.
And with our best crops the prcfit per
acre is much larger than under Western
IN ethOds CT cultivation. It has eeded to
be, for one man cannot manage as many
acres as where everything Is DOPE by
horse power. But so mech depends on
good, careful planting In getting uni
form stand that it is a question whether
more corn planting should not be done
by hand, provided it could be done in the
best manner. With rows three and a half
feet each way an active man should be
able to plant an acre and half or more
day. Calling a days work worth 81 so
it makes the cost of hand planting ST per
acre. Will not the additional yield from
having the seed put in just right more
than Offset this slight expense? For it
must be remembered that planting by
horse power, requiring machinery, men
and teams. also costs pretty dearly, and
does not do its work In the best manner.
The mistakes in hand planting are more
apt to result from business and trying to
do too much than from any other cause.
The very best planter we ever had, made
few motions to q hill, and kept clear
ahead of those working with him. He
was careful to drop just four grains of
corn in each hill, covered with one stroke
of the hoe, stepped on the freshly covered
seed and was ready for the next hill. At
the time we thought his work too slovenly
and careless, but the rows whers every
hill was sepped on, and the seed covered
with very light covering of fine earth,
were up first and kept their head all
through the season. This experiment
and subsequent observation have con-
WINGED US that too deep planting is the
cause OF many failures in corn planting
Factory and Dairy in England.
Prairie Farmer.
| review of the situation of those En-
glish farmers who make butter and cheese
for the general market is given in the
English agricultural papers. The condi-
ton seems to be nearly the same as in this
country. French butter put up in taste
full, pauniform ckages, has become popu-
lar in the English markets, and the farm
ers are slowly learning that they must
make and pack their butter according to
the fashion dictated by foreigners. Cana
dian factory cheese has come into general
favor because OF itT good uniform quality
Dealers find it more satisfactory to han
small quantities by the farmers. They
complain that the farmers are hard to
deal with, and can not be depended on for
regular supplies. Each PERSISTS in max
ing his own recipe, and regards friendly
criticisms as an insult, just as do butter
makers in the West.
The inevitable result is that the factor
les rather than the farms are supplying
| hntt nd oh 70 ha >af
Men trained for the work. with the great
er system and better facilities of large
daily business, make more uniform class
of porducts than individual farmers
Further, each factory has enough of
uniform production to establish a name
in any locality 1t may desire to supply
Dairying is gradually coming to system
attic business foundation. The genera
market looks more and more to the CO
operative dairy system for its goods
Consumers will look first to the direct
supply system, second to the creamery
butter offered by the trade, and if thai
can not be afforded, to the cheap, faulty
| grades that are in com petition with cleo
margarine, or to Oleomargarine as las
resort. If farmers make profits at dairy
ing, they must either arrange their diaries
to sell cream, or go to work in dead earn
est in working up a trade to furnish pri
vate parties with nice goods. The farmer
who allows his dairy only second place il
his time ana thought, had better sell cream
to the creamery, and not undertake tt
compete with those who make the business
of supplying nice butter direct to con
sumers second to none other. Cheese
making is already nearly exclusively il
the hands of factOrymen in this country